The autumn series of The 9pm Edict continues with special guest Greg Muller, a journalist who’s produced, among many things, the podcast documentary series Motherlode, It’s about the early computer hacking scene and the origin story of Julian Assange.
We talk about Motherlode and hacking and Mr Assange and WikiLeaks. Obviously. But we also cover the nature of journalism, arsonists, the separation of church and state, sound design, Donald Trump, the Pentagon Papers, and of course Scott Morrison and Anthony Albanese and the forthcoming federal election.
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Greg Muller is an award-winning TV, radio, online journalist and podcast producer, with more than 20 years experience in the Australian media.
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Podcasts | Online | TV | Radio. #Motherlode #GertiesLaw #wrongskin podcasts formerly @theage @LawReportRN @abc730, @theprojecttv.
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The gripping story about the birth of computer hacking from an unlikely centre - Melbourne Australia. It was here teenage boys, and they were mostly boys, hacked into some of the biggest organisations in the world. It’s also where a young hacker, Julian Assange, cut his teeth on computers and went on to develop Wikileaks, the most disruptive website the world has seen. But Wikileaks didn’t just spring up out of nowhere. It was 20 years in the making. Motherlode reveals the technological and political motivations behind it.
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Underground: Tales of Hacking, Madness and Obsession on the Electronic Frontier is a 1997 book by Suelette Dreyfus, researched by Julian Assange. It describes the exploits of a group of Australian, American, and British black hat hackers during the late 1980s and early 1990s, among them Assange himself.
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Download This eBook. Project Gutenberg books are always free!
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Hacker culture is an idea derived from a community of enthusiast computer programmers and systems designers in the 1960s around the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT's) Tech Model Railroad Club (TMRC) and the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. The concept expanded to the hobbyist home computing community, focusing on hardware in the late 1970s (e.g. the Homebrew Computer Club)[16] and on software (video games, software cracking, the demoscene) in the 1980s/1990s. Later, this would go on to encompass many new definitions such as art, and life hacking.
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The WANK Worm was a computer worm that attacked DEC VMS computers in 1989 over the DECnet. It was written in DIGITAL Command Language.
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Galileo was an American robotic space probe that studied the planet Jupiter and its moons, as well as the asteroids Gaspra and Ida. Named after the Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei, it consisted of an orbiter and an entry probe. It was delivered into Earth orbit on October 18, 1989 by Space Shuttle Atlantis.
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A radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG, RITEG) is a type of nuclear battery that uses an array of thermocouples to convert the heat released by the decay of a suitable radioactive material into electricity by the Seebeck effect. This type of generator has no moving parts.
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The sinking of Rainbow Warrior, codenamed Opération Satanique, was a bombing operation by the "action" branch of the French foreign intelligence services, the Direction générale de la sécurité extérieure (DGSE), carried out on 10 July 1985. During the operation, two operatives sank the flagship of the Greenpeace fleet, Rainbow Warrior, at the Port of Auckland on her way to a protest against a planned French nuclear test in Moruroa. Fernando Pereira, a photographer, drowned on the sinking ship.
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Eugene Howard Spafford (born 1956), nicknamed Spaf, is an American professor of computer science at Purdue University and a leading computer security expert.
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[19 November 2017.]
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Julian Paul Assange (/??s??n?/; né Hawkins; born 3 July 1971) is an Australian editor, publisher and activist who founded WikiLeaks in 2006. WikiLeaks came to international attention in 2010 when it published a series of leaks provided by U.S. Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning. These leaks included the Baghdad airstrike Collateral Murder video (April 2010), the Afghanistan war logs (July 2010), the Iraq war logs (October 2010), and Cablegate (November 2010). After the 2010 leaks, the United States government launched a criminal investigation into WikiLeaks.
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Blockchain and cryptocurrency news and analysis by David Gerard
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WikiLeaks (/?w?kili?ks/) is an international non-profit organisation that publishes news leaks and classified media provided by anonymous sources. Its website, initiated in 2006 in Iceland by the organisation Sunshine Press, stated in 2015 that it had released online 10 million documents in its first 10 years. Julian Assange, an Australian Internet activist, is generally described as its founder and director. Since September 2018, Kristinn Hrafnsson has served as its editor-in-chief.
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[28 November 2011] Over the weekend, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange accepted the award for Most Outstanding Contribution to Journalism at the 2011 Walkley Award in Australia, an honor akin to the Pulitzer Prize in the United States.
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[7 November 2010] That tired “bloggers are not journalists” debate looks like it’ll surface in Australia’s Senate soon, thanks to The Greens. It’ll be annoying. But it’ll be a Good Thing.
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[4 March 2011] New shield laws protecting Australian journalists’ confidential sources now also cover independent media and even bloggers and “citizen journalists”, thanks to minor but critical amendments by The Greens.
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New York Times Co. v. United States, 403 U.S. 713 (1971), was a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States on the First Amendment right of Freedom of the Press. The ruling made it possible for The New York Times and The Washington Post newspapers to publish the then-classified Pentagon Papers without risk of government censorship or punishment.
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The video, shot from an Apache helicopter gun-sight, clearly shows the unprovoked slaying of a wounded Reuters employee and his rescuers.
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[16 April 2019] In 2011, Wikileaks, with Julian Assange as its editor, received a Walkley Award in Australia for its outstanding contribution to journalism. Walkley judges said Wikileaks applied new technology to “penetrate the inner workings of government to reveal an avalanche of inconvenient truths in a global publishing coup”... In 2011, Wikileaks, with Julian Assange as its editor, received a Walkley Award in Australia for its outstanding contribution to journalism. Walkley judges said Wikileaks applied new technology to “penetrate the inner workings of government to reveal an avalanche of inconvenient truths in a global publishing coup”.
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With forensic detail, Andrew Fowler provides a ringside seat at the epic battle that has made Julian Assange the USA's public enemy number one.
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[3 April 2022] Some interesting interviews from the rally today. Here’s Julie from Ohio. She thinks Space Force is going to help trump overturn the 2020 election.
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Right Side Broadcasting Network (RSBN), also known as Right Side Broadcasting, is a media company founded by Joe Seales in 2015. They are best known for their live stream coverage of Donald Trump's rallies, town halls, and public events on their YouTube channel
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The IPCC has finalized the third part of the Sixth Assessment Report, Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change, the Working Group III contribution. It was finalized on 4 April during the 14th Session of Working Group III and 56th Session of the IPCC.
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Immigration Minister Peter Dutton has been overheard quipping about the plight of Pacific Island nations facing rising seas from climate change. Read more: http://ab.co/1O4Zg7n
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[25 March 2022] Draft agreement circulating on social media suggests China could establish military base less than 2,000km from Australia
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On 16 September 2021, the Prime Minister of Australia, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and the President of the United States of America, announced an enhanced trilateral security partnership between Australia, the UK and the US (AUKUS).
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The federal government has released its 2022-23 federal Budget, containing a AU$9.9 billion kitty for bolstering cybersecurity and intelligence capabilities in the midst of a growing cyberthreat landscape around the world. The near-AU$10 billion will be spent across a decade under a program called Resilience, Effects, Defence, Space, Intelligence, Cyber and Enablers (REDSPICE).
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Most of the funding for the AU$9.9 billion REDSPICE cyber program comes from cancelled projects, including the air force's armed drone capability and the navy's Attack-class submarines.
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[5 April 2022] Prime Minister Scott Morrison speaks to Leigh Sales about the issues surrounding the Liberal Party infighting and the forthcoming election.
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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. As quoted in The Military Quotation Book (2002) by James Charlton, p. 93.
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[31 March 2022] My fellow Australians. Working together, we can build a better future.
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[28 January 2022] Anthony Albanese, Leader of the Australian Labor Party and Leader of the Opposition, addresses the National Press Club of Australia.
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Legendary 6News creator and anchor, Leo Puglisi has sat down with John and Charles to talk about the behind the scenes of his groundbreaking interview with Morrison, and what it’s like to run a news organisation that actually tries to check facts. Plus, Leo has some tips on the best ways to use Twitter while at school.
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Pays on party which supplies the Prime Minister following the next Federal election. Bets settled at time of swearing in. All bets carry over if the Gov General does not swear in a PM because supply cannot be guaranteed.
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FWIW, the odds for the 2019 election on this day 3 years ago, and the odds for the 2022 election today...
If they aren’t showing up, try here.
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